On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 07:46:52PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Kind of a feature where you can maintain a system that's a mix of debian > stable, testing and unstable - and lock particular packages to the version > from > a particular debian release. If you wanted a system that is basically FC1 but > has a mix of FC2 and FC3 package versions ..
By "unstable", I mean totaly upgrade you system to "sid". > That's why I get so many debian users coming around various mailing lists > hunting frantically for a debian package of a new version, to replace the old, > obsolete version their debian ships with. When someone suggests that they just > download the source and compile it, it is like we've gone and told them to > commit sacrilege or something. I accept that sometimes, ./configure;make... is necessary. However, I still feel that if my configure fails, all I have to do is get hold of the library which is needed to compile the software. > > RH has the alternatives package too - with that huge mess of symlinks in > /etc/alternatives/ > > One of the worse imports from debian, that one ... > Again, it's a matter of choice. Well, I don't see this discussion going anywhere, so I'd rather like to sign off on a good note, feeling happy with the amount of choice and alternate methods offered by Linux. Rather than argue about our choices, I'd rather be happy that people have many ways to achieve a common goal and they're happy with it! Kumar ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
